Garden-tool.



H. M. MORRILL.

GARDEN TOOL.

APPLIUATION'HLED AUG. 1, 1908.

Patented 001). 19, 1909.

j fm2/621x021 Witnesses. @0W/6M HENRY M. MORRIQLL, 0F TEKONSHA, MICHIGAN.

GARDEN-TOOL.

y Speeieation of Letters Patent.

Application tiled August 1, 1908. Serial No. 448,466.

To all whom it 'ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M'. MORRILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tekonsha, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garden Tools. et' which the following is a specification.

more particularly to that class of tools in which a rake and hoe portion are oppositely secured to a head, to which a handle is affixed.

Among other objects, I provide a tool of this character in which the teeth Imay be readily removed for the purpose of duplicating in case of breakage, or for changing the style of tooth as the operator ma elect.

Other objects and `advantages will ereinafter a ppear in the specification and be more particularly set forth in the claim hereto appended and forming a part theref.

lu the drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my in'lproved garden tool. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section on a line intersecting a tooth fastenin K In the drawings' like marks of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout .the different Views, in Wllc A, represents a handle; B, the tool shank or handle socket; and C, a blade adapted to be used as a 110e 0I scuii'er. l

Secured to, or forming a part of, the shank or socket, 1?, a transverse T-head, 1, is pro vided. This head, on the side opposite the handle socket or shank is provided with vertically-disposed notches, 2, vwithin which teeth. 3, are tted. To the rear andJlying parallel with the tool-head 1, a secondary .lhis invention relates to garden tools, and

enga ged which the teeth are held in position. To prevent the teeth from upward thrust or longitudinal displacement, each tooth is 4formed with an offset or shoulder, 5, which is adapted to abutthe under side of the toolhead, 1, and to prevent theteeth from rolling` or' turning edgewise in the tool-head the rear of the teeth are slightly flattened and tirmliy)l secured by means of screws or bolts, 6, whic pass through parts 1 and 4, clamping the parts together. The clamping plate, 4;, by preference has two upwardly-formed ory clamping plate, 4, is provided between Patenteaoct. 19, 1909.

arms, 7, to whicha blade, C, is secured'by riveting or otherwise, the blade answering the purpose of a scui'er or hoe,

'Having, therefore, set forth my invention, what I clalln as new and desirev to secure by,

Letters Patent, is f i In a garden tool, the combination with a handle socket provided with an integral T- Asti head vhaving notches formed in its outerl I faceshof a clamping plate substantially the same size as the T-head'connected thereto by boltsy passing transversely through the respective members, said clamping'plate be-l ing provided with upwardly and forwardly.

projectingcurved arms provided with apertured ends, a curved blade secured to said arms by rivts passing through the.. same and teeth arranged within the notches of the T- head having flattened sides adapted to be by the clamping plate, said teeth being provided with shoulders lfor engaging the lower edge of the T-head for limiting the upward movement of the same.

HENRY M. MORRILL. Witnesses:

B. Gr. Doonrr'rLn, C. A. BRIMMER. 

